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Fear and Loathing and Acid Rain

Updated June 20, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Charles Battig's June 7 Letter to the Editor about the impending onslaught of global-warming fear mongering reminds us of another trip down the avenue of half truths -- acid rain. The cause and effect went this way: Pollutants from electric utilities in the Ohio River Valley were whisked by wind currents to the Northeast to devastate lakes of all sizes and shapes. Lakes were turned to "vinegar," and statuary eroded.

Behind this environmental train run amok was a campaign to legislate tighter clean-air standards....